Analyst donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

A broad title inside 2012

The occupation key ANALYST plus the 2012 cycle produces $1,915,148, 8.9% of the $21,535,032 harvested under that key. Financial analyst, research analyst, and systems analyst are other rows if those longer strings were typed.

Presidential-year volume does not tell this page which contests received the money. The join reports the overlap, then sends the reader to Analyst donations and the 2012 election cycle for named committees.

The occupation hub for Analyst lists $21.5 million ($21,535,032) under the exact string ANALYST. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Analyst in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.9 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

Why ANALYST is a noisy bucket

$21.5 million under ANALYST is a pile of identical strings, not a professional association roster. People who wrote senior analyst or equity analyst split off. This ties page does not stitch those variants into one labor-market occupation.

A noisy bucket still has a real disclosure total. $21,535,032 is what the extract summed. The 2012 slice of that sum is $1.9 million.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,915,148. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $21,535,032. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Analyst donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $1,915,148. If a later harvest revises 1,664 or 745, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($21,535,032) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

2012 line counts

1,664 contributions and 745 donors yield about 2.2 receipts per donor, about $1,151 per line and $2,571 per donor. Those means mix intern-scale itemized gifts with large checks if both used the same occupation word.

Seven hundred forty-five donors is a mid-size cell: large enough that one gift rarely is the whole $1.9 million, small enough that the upper tail still matters. This packet has no top-donor table.

1,664 is a receipt count. 745 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.9 million.

Citation rules

Quote $1,915,148 with both nouns: Analyst and 2012. Quote $21,535,032 as the occupation-string total. Do not call either figure “Wall Street” or “the intelligence community.” Those are not the key.

FEC.gov is the source. All occupations lists sibling titles. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells.

Dividing $1,915,148 by 1,664 receipts yields about $1,151 per line. Dividing by 745 donors yields about $2,571 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

What Analyst does not mean

Analyst is not a security clearance, a Series 7, or a think-tank affiliation. It is five characters on an individual contribution record. Filers who used a longer title are outside $1.9 million.

No party split, no employer list, no claim that analysis work caused the gifts. The join is 1,664 receipts, 745 donors, $1,915,148.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode ANALYST into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did analysts donate in 2012?

Filers who wrote Analyst itemized $1,915,148 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 1,664 receipts and 745 donors. The cell is 8.9% of $21,535,032 under ANALYST. Longer titles such as financial analyst are other occupation keys when that is the form text.

Is Analyst a single profession in FEC data?

No. The Commission stores the occupation as typed. ANALYST is one string used by many kinds of work. This page does not split $1.9 million by industry. Employer is not in the packet. The occupation hub shows the rollup; this join shows the 2012 slice.

What is an occupation-cycle tie page?

It is the overlap of one occupation key and one even-numbered cycle. For Analyst in 2012, the overlap is $1,915,148. The occupation total ($21.5 million) and the cycle hub are parent tables. This page exists so those two dimensions are not copied as if they were one number.

Does $1.9 million include PAC spending?

No. It is individual contributions with occupation Analyst. PAC independent expenditures and committee transfers are outside the cell. There is no party field in this packet. See Analyst donations or the 2012 election cycle for committee rows. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Analyst in 2012 is $1,915,148 on 1,664 receipts from 745 donors.